This caused diseases such as typhoid and cholera to run rampant. What cities grew during the Industrial Revolution? In the industrial revolution, New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia saw the most ...

The prevailing view among developers and brokers is that as long as more rooftops get built, people will move here, ...

In cities such as Lowell, women were in a unique environment in which to recognize both life's possibilities, and the social, economic, and political forces that defined and shaped their existence.

Houses like this were traditional in the Highlands of Scotland before the Industrial Revolution. Today most people in Scotland live in urban areas - large towns or cities. Families lived in the ...

The rapid urbanization brought on by the Industrial Revolution caused villages and towns to swell. As a result, some of the urban centers became cities. Unfortunately, some of the centers also ...

A blend of equity, private debt and public investment drove the country's growth in the Industrial Revolution. To remain ...

Rivers have been more intensively used for power in the Don catchment than almost anywhere else in the country, particularly during the peak of the Industrial Revolution. Sheffield is famous for its .

Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution ...

Cities have turned earth into a kind of planetary nightlight. We can’t peer down from the moon to see what it looked like before the Industrial Revolution, but it’s safe to say it was ...